At 11:04 AM 7/30/2011, Joshua Cude wrote:
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jouni Valkonen
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
That is very true, it requires lots of steam to rise boiling point
temperature by one degree of celsius.
How much is lots? If 2% of the liquid vaporizes, that makes lots of steam.
Right. The behavior of the E-cat indicates that some water is
vaporizing. How much, we have few clues, except that the weakness of
the steam in some demos makes it look like "not much." It's been
pointed out that some demos may have represented "not working"
E-cats. This, all by itself, if true, raises a major issue.
To those of us with a major interest in LENR, that there might be
Ni-H results wasn't so surprising. There was resistance to Ni-H for
theoretical reasons, but this kind of thinking was really the same
kind of thinking that caused premature rejection of PdD cold fusion.
Unexpected.
Rossi made a splash, though, because he was claiming not only high
levels of heat, but reliability. Reliability is crucial for
commercialization. If he doesn't have a reliable reactor, even if it
works sometimes, there is a huge problem and he may fail to deliver
in October *even if the things actually do work sometimes.*
Mats Lewan's E-Cat had highest ratio of excess heat produced where
there was around 2kW excess heat.
I agree, if by "around" you mean "give or take 2 kW".
More like 1 kW give or take 1 kW!
Hey, Cude, how about popping over to Wikiversity and helping develop
the Cold fusion resource there, making sure that skeptical POV is
well-represented? We had Moulton for a while, but he flamed out. Some
good things came out of our discussions, even though he was really a
pseudoskeptic. He was smart enough to raise some important issues,
and they got clarified. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
etc. There is some mention of the Rossi reactor at
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion#Nickel-hydrogen_system,
and there is a page on it at
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion/Energy_Catalyzer. I wrote
all that and it's really old and naive now.
I now conclude that Rossi is a fraud. He may be finding some excess
heat, but his demonstrations and comments amount to fraud anyway.
Exaggerating his results is a form of fraud, and that kind of fraud
has happened before. Come to think of it, possibly with Rossi. It's
not criminal fraud, as far as I know. He can tell the public any
story he wants, it's not illegal to lie to the public. After all,
politicians, etc.!
